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Yesterday, when I needed a break from hacking on Plasma's Wayland integration, I remade the photo into vector art to use it as wallpaper. You can download the result here (the wallpaper package has versions for all resolutions, including phone and landscape versions, you can just unzip the package into /usr/share/wallpapers).
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Wall drawingFriday, September 11th, 2015
PSA: Plasma Mobile forums have movedTuesday, July 28th, 2015
For a short while, the Plasma Mobile forums were hosted outside of the official KDE Forums. In our quest to put everything under KDE governance, we have now moved the Plasma Mobile forums under KDE's forums as well. Enjoy the new Plasma Mobile forums.
As a few users had already registered on the "old" forums, this means a smallish interruption as the threads could not be quickly moved to the new forums. We're sorry for that inconvenience and would like to ask everyone to move to the new forums.
Thanks for your patience and sorry again for the hassle involved with that.
Embracing MobileSaturday, July 25th, 2015
At Blue Systems, we have been working on making Plasma shine for a while now. We've contributed much to the KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 projects, and helping with the transition to Qt5. Much of this work has been involving porting, stabilizing and improving existing code. With the new architecture in place, we've also worked on new topics, such as Plasma on non-desktop (and non-laptop) devices.
This work is coming to fruition now, and we feel that it has reached a point where we want to present it to a more general public. Today we unveil the Plasma Mobile project. Its aim is to offer a Free (as in Freedom), user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile runs on top of Linux, uses Wayland for rendering graphics and offers a device-specific user interface using the KDE Frameworks and Plasma library and tooling. Plasma Mobile is under development, and not usable by end users now. Missing functionality and stability problems are normal in this phase of development and will be ironed out. Plasma Mobile provides basic functionality and an opportunity for developers to jump in now and shape the mobile platform, and how we use our mobile devices.
As is necessary with development on mobile devices, we've not stopped at providing source code that "can be made to work", rather we're doing a reference implementation of Plasma Mobile that can be used by those who would like to build a product based on Plasma Mobile on their platform. The reference implementation is based on Kubuntu, which we chose because there is a lot of expertise in our team with Kubuntu, and at Blue Systems we already have continuous builds and package creation in place. Much of the last year was spent getting the hardware to work, and getting our code to boot on a phone. With pride, we're now announcing the general availability of this project for public contribution. In order to make clear that this is not an in-house project, we have moved the project assets to KDE infrastructure and put under Free software licenses (GPL and LGPL according to KDE's licensing policies). Plasma Mobile's reference implementation runs on an LG Nexus 5 smartphone, using an Android kernel, Ubuntu user space and provides an integrated Plasma user interface on top of all that. We also have an x86 version, running on an ExoPC, which can be useful for testing.
Plasma Mobile uses the Wayland display protocol to render the user interface. KWin, Plasma's window manager and compositor plays a central role. For apps that do not support Wayland, we provide X11 support through the XWayland compatibility layer.
Plasma Mobile is a truly converged user interface. More than 90% of its code is shared with the traditional desktop user interface. The mobile workspace is implemented in the form of a shell or workspace suitable for mobile phones. The shell provides an app launcher, a quick settings panel and a task switcher. Other functionality, such as a dialer, settings, etc. is implemented using specialized components that can be mixed and matched to create a specific user experience or to provide additional functionality — some of them already known from Plasma Desktop.
Plasma Mobile is developed in a public and open development process. Contributions are welcome and encouraged throughout the process. We do not want to create another walled garden, but an inclusive platform for creation of mobile device user experiences. We do not want to create releases behind closed doors and throw them over the wall once in a while, but create a leveled playing field for contributors to work together and share their work. Plasma Mobile's code is available on git.kde.org, and its development is discussed on the plasma-devel mailinglist. In the course of Akademy, we have a number of sessions planned to flesh out more and more detailed plans for further development.
With the basic workspace and OS integration work done, we have laid a good base for further development, and for others to get their code to run on Plasma Mobile. More work which is already in our pipeline includes support for running Android applications, which potentially brings a great number of mature apps to Plasma Mobile, better integration with other Plasma Devices, such as your desktop or laptop through KDE Connect, an improved SDK making it very easy to get a full-fledged development environment set up in minutes, and of course more applications.
thoughts on being merciful binary godsWednesday, July 15th, 2015
"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy." Bill Gates
For the sake of the users, let's assume Bill was either wrong or (||) sarcastic.
Let's say that we want to deliver Freedom and privacy to the users and that we want to be more effective at that. We plan to do that through quality software products and communication — that's how we reach new users and keep them loving our software.
We can't get away with half-assed software that more or less always shows clear signs of "in progress", we need to think our software through from a users point of view and then build the software accordingly. We need to present our work at eye-level with commercial software vendors, it needs to be clear that we're producing software fully reliable on a professional level. Our planning, implementation, quality and deployment processes need to be geared towards this same goal.
We need processes that allow us to deliver fixes to users within days, if not hours. Currently in most end-user scenario, it often takes months and perhaps even a dist-upgrade for a fix for a functional problem with our software.
The fun of all this lies in a more rewarding experience of making successful software, and learning to work together across the whole stack (including communication) to work together on this goal.
So, with these objectives in mind, where do we go from here? The answer is of course that we're already underway, not at a very fast speed, but many of us have good understanding of many of the above structural goals and found solutions that work well.
Take tighter and more complete quality control, being at the heart of the implementation, as an example. We have adopted better review processes, more unit testing, more real-world testing and better feedback cycles with the community, especially the KDE Frameworks and Plasma stacks are well maintained and stabilized at high speeds. We can clearly say that the Frameworks idea worked very well technically but also from an organizational point of view, we have spread the maintainership over many more shoulders, and have been able to vastly simplify the deployment model (away from x.y.z releases). This works out because we test especially the Frameworks automatically and rather thoroughly through our CI systems. Within one year of Frameworks 5, our core software layer has settled into a nice pace of stable incremental development.
On the user interaction side, the past years have accompanied our interaction designers with visual artists. This is clearly visible when comparing Plasma 4 to Plasma 5. We have help from a very active group of visual designers now for about one and a half year, but have also adopted stricter visual guidelines in our development process and forward-thinking UI and user interaction design. These improvements in our processes have not just popped up, they are the result of a cultural shift towards opening the KDE also to non-coding contributors, and creating an atmosphere where designers feel welcome and where they can work productively in tandem with developers on a common goal. Again, this shows in many big and small usability, workflow and consistency improvements all over our software.
To strengthen the above processes and plug the missing holes in the big picture to make great products, we have to ask ourselves the right questions and then come up with solutions. Many of them will not be rocket science, some may take a lot of effort by many. This should not hold us back, as a commonly shared direction and goal is needed anyway, regardless of ability to move. We need to be more flexible, and we need to be able to move swiftly on different fronts. Long-standing communities such as KDE can sometimes feel to have the momentum of an ocean liner, which may be comfortable but takes ages to move, while it really should have the velocity, speed and navigational capabilities of a zodiak.
By design, Free Culture communities such as ours can operate more efficiently (through sharing and common ownership) than commercial players (who are restricted, but also boosted by market demands), so in principle, we should be able to offer competitive solutions promoting Freedom and privacy.
Our users need merciful
binary source code gods and deserve top-notch silicon fists.
Convergence through DivergenceThursday, July 2nd, 2015
It's that time of the year again, it seems: I'm working on KPluginMetaData improvements.
In this article, I am describing a new feature that allows developers to filter applications and plugins depending on the target device they are used on. The article targets developers and device integrators and is of a very technical nature.
Different apps per device
This time around, I'm adding a mechanism that allows us to list plugins, applications (and the general "service") specific for a given form factor. In normal-people-language, that means that I want to make it possible to specify whether an application or plugin should be shown in the user interface of a given device. Let's look at an example: KMail. KMail has two user interfaces, the desktop version, a traditional fat client offering all the features that an email client could possibly have, and a touch-friendly version that works well on devices such as smart phones and tablets. If both are installed, which should be shown in the user interface, for example the launcher? The answer is, unfortunately: we can't really tell as there currently is no scheme to derive this information from in a reliable way. With the current functionality that is offered by KDE Frameworks and Plasma, we'd simply list both applications, they're both installed and there is no metadata that could possibly tell us the difference.
Now the same problem applies to not only applications, but also, for example to settings modules. A settings module (in Frameworks terms "KCM") can be useful on the desktop, but ignored for a media center. There may also be modules which provide similar functionality, but for a different use case. We don't want to create a mess of overlapping modules, however, so again, we need some kind of filtering.
Metadata to the rescue
Enter KPluginMetaData. KPluginMetaData gives information about an application, a plugin or something like this. It lists name, icon, author, license and a whole bunch of other things, and it lies at the base of things such as the Kickoff application launcher, KWin's desktop effects listing, and basically everything that's extensible or uses plugins.
I have just merged a change to KPluginMetaData that allows all these things to specify what form factor it's relevant and useful for. This means that you can install for example KDevelop on a system that can be either a laptop or a mediacenter, and an application listing can be adapted to only show KDevelop when in desktop mode, and skipping it in media center mode. This is of great value when you want to unclutter the UI by filtering out irrelevant "stuff". As this mechanism is implemented at the base level, KPluginMetaData, it's available everywhere, using the exact same mechanism. When listing or loading "something", you simply check if your current formfactor is among the suggested useful ones for an app or plugin, and based on that you make a decision whether to list it or skip it.
With increasing convergence between user interfaces, this mechanism allows us to adapt the user interface and its functionality in a fully dynamic way, and reduces clutter.
Getting down and dirty
So, how does this look exactly? Let's take KMail as example, and assume for the sake of this example that we have two executables, kmail and kmail-touch. Two desktop files are installed, which I'll list here in short form.
For the desktop fat client:
[Desktop] Name=Email Comment=Fat-client for your email Exec=kmail X-KDE-FormFactors=desktop
For the touch-friendly version:
[Desktop] Name=Email Comment=Touch-friendly email client Exec=kmail-touch X-KDE-FormFactors=handset,tablet
Note that that "FormFactors" key does not just take one fixed value, but allows specifying a list of values — an application may support more than one form-factor. This is reflected throughout the API with the plural form being used. Now the only thing the application launcher has to do is to check if the current form-factor is among the supplied ones, for example like this:
foreach (const KPluginMetaData &app, allApps) { if (app.formFactors().count() == 0 || app->formFactors().contains("desktop")) { shownAppsList.append(app); } }
In this example, we check if the plugin metadata does specify the form-factor by counting the elements, and if it does, we check whether "desktop" is among them. For the above mentioned example files, it would mean that the fat client will be added to the list, and the touch-friendly one won't. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader how one could filter only applications that are specifically suitable for example for a tablet device.
What devices are supported?
KPluginMetaData does not itself check if any of the values make sense. This is done by design because we want to allow for a wide range of form-factors, and we simply don't know yet which devices this mechanism will be used on in the future. As such, the values are free-form and part of the contract between the "reader" (for example a launcher or a plugin listing) and the plugins themselves. There are a few commonly used values already (desktop, mediacenter, tablet, handset), but in principle, adding new form-factors (such as smartwatches, toasters, spaceships or frobulators) is possible, and part of its design.
For application developers
Application developers are encouraged to add this metadata to their .desktop files. Simply adding a line like the FormFactors one in the above examples will help to offer the application on different devices. If your application is desktop-only, this is not really urgent, as in the case of the desktop launchers (Kickoff, Kicker, KRunner and friends), we'll likely use a mechanism like the above: No formfactors specified means: list it. For devices where most of the applications to be found will likely not work, marking your app with a specific FormFactor will increase the chances of it being found. As applications are being adopted to respect the form-factor's metadata, its usefulness will increase. So if you know your app will work well with a remote control, add "mediacenter", if you know it works well on touch devices with a reasonably sized display, add "tablet", and so on.
We now have basic API, but nobody uses it (a chicken-and-egg situation, really). I expect that one of the first users of this will be Plasma Mediacenter. Bhushan is currently working on the integration of Plasma widgets into its user interface, and he has already expressed interest in using this exact mechanism. As KDE software moves onto a wider range of devices, this functionality will be one of the cornerstones of the device-adaptable user interface. If we want to use device UIs to their full potential, we do not just need converging code, we also need to add divergence features to allow benefiting from the difference of devices.
Cuba Diving.Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
During the 3 week trip to Cuba, I visited three locations in the south-western part of the island. In total, I did 19 dives along the Cuba coast, all of them very enjoyable. On the list were shallow (10-18m) coral reef dives, wall dives, some of them deep. I clocked my max depth at 34.1m. One of the things I wanted to do was a cave dive in a Cenote. Cenotes are underwater cave systems found around the geological area.
General ConsiderationsCuba, being a Carribean island has a tropical climate with warm waters around it, and climatically a wet and a dry season. As the wet season may make the sea choppy, reduce visibility and carries the risk of hurricanes, it's advisable to pick the dry seasons, months from November to May for diving activities. The South coast, which is where I have been diving had warm waters 27°C at the surface, and 26°C as depths down to about 35m. Visibility was generally excellent, commonly around 30m, with sometimes up to 50-60m in calm water. In several spots, there are large and well-preserved coral reefs. The South coast usually has calmer waters than the North coast, so I picked locations in the South-West: Maria La Gorda at the far southwestern point of the island, Playa Girón at the Bay of Pigs, and Playa Ancón near Trinidad. All turned out to be worth visiting and made for some amazing dives. (We also visited Cayo Levisa on Cuba's Northern shore, which has a nice beach, but was mediocre at best for snorkeling from the shore. Go to Cayo Jutia instead, if you want good snorkeling, or book the boat to go diving at Cayo Levisa.)
Cuba is a communist country, instead of Coca Cola advertisements you'll find some billboard reminding you that "the revolution is invincible". Economic trade embargoes make acquiring scuba diving gear a problem (although I haven't seen any shortcomings in this area myself). There's usually just one dive center running the diving operations, so not much choice, but on the other hand, you'll rarely encounter crowded dive sites, or reduced visibility due to other divers silting up the waters.
Touristic activities such as diving are usually possible through government-owned dive centers. There's a network of official travel agents across the country, which can help you with booking trips and getting in contact with dive centers. Many of them are not easily reachable by phone, but you can sometimes book in advance of your trip online. In my experience, it would have been fine to just show up at the dive center at the right time of the day with your certification card and dive logs to prove your experience, and you'll be almost good to go. I decided to bring my own gear, regulator, jacket BCD, 3mm wetsuit, fins, mask and torch in order to avoid any annoyances or unsafe situations due to flaky equipment.
My personal experience has been very positive, I loved the different dive sites, guides were generally skilled, and I had a whole bunch of amazing dives in Cuba. Would recommend.
Maria la GordaMaria la Gorda is a bit off the beaten path in Cuba, one of the more remote locations on the main land. We travelled there from Vinales in 3 hours by car. The location itself is comprised of a hotel, two restaurants, and dive centre on a beautiful beach that also makes for some very nice snorkeling, you can basically walk in and enjoy lots of fish, even those not often discovered while scuba diving. Kim spotted barracuda, jacks, parrot fish, a moray and even an octopus just a few meters off the beach.
Diving there is done by boat 3 times a day. Almost all of the diving spots are within a 15min boat ride. The dive boat goes to 3 different sites a day, at 8:30, 11:00 and 15:00. It's possible to also do a night dive, but has to be arranged with the staff. If you're doing a day trip from Vinales just for diving, you'll arrive in time to do two dives before leaving, the dive center does consider day guests. The surface time in between was enough to not dip too deep into nitrogen levels with 3 daily dives, the first two of them deep. Dives are usually limited to 45′ bottom time. If in general, you can't get enough of scuba diving, that's a lot of diving there.
The sites I've visited were all amazing in their own rights. Beautiful walls littered with coral, dropping down to 2000m right below you, really nice tunnels to dive through, large fan corals, barrel sponges of 3m and more, large groupers, jacks, and the usual variety of coral reef fish (parrot, box fish, angelfish, jacks, butterfly fish, etc.). Fish of more than 50cm in size were no exception, which seems like a sign that at least this part of the Carribean is comparably less overfished than other areas, there and especially in Asian countries.
The procedures on the boat were a bit unclear, I had liked to get better introduction there. Other people were happy to help, so this wasn't much of a problem. The guides' briefings were too short for my taste, especially knowing a bit about the navigation planned underwater would help to keep the group together more closely and in the end improves safety. I've asked the guide to tell me about the planned route under water, which he did in the following dives. That allowed me to take some responsibility myself (I really like to know under water that everybody who went into the water comes out of it as well). That said, there's always room for improvement, and it didn't lead to any dangerous situations. Taking responsibility for your buddies is part of diving, and as long as everybody takes it seriously, no problem.
Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs)The Bay of Pigs is historically known for an attempt by the CIA to invade Cuba with US-friendly troops and overthrow the then-young communist government. Lack of political support from the US government, underestimation of the Cuban revolutionary troops and insufficient secrecy lead to an utter failure of the invasion attempt. Nowadays, the bay of pigs is a rather calm area, with excellent scuba diving. Basically, the eastern shore of the bay is lined with a coral reef wall very close to the shore. Commonly, one would do a shore entry here, swim out about 100m and then drop into the wall.
I dove with Ronel's local dive operation. A tweaked bus would pick us up in the morning, go to the dive center (next to the government run hotel in Playa Giron) to gear up, and then drive up North for 10 – 20 minutes to one of the dive spots along the bay, then do two shore dives from there. We'd return around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, so there's plenty of time for other activities (which, to be fair there aren't that many apart from the beach and a "not-quite-neutral" museum about the failed invasion attempt).
The Cenote DiveCenotes are sinkholes in the shallow limestone ground near the coast. Small pools filled with fresh surface waters lead to extended cave systems flooded with salt water, so one enters a fresh water pool in the woods, then descends through a haloclyne. This haloclyne is the border between fresh and salt water. The caves were usually filled with salt water seeping in from the sea, but as there are almost no currents, rain water that comes in from above stays on top as fresh water. The haloclyne produces a weird disturbed visual effect when one dives through it, but above and underneath it, visibility is clear. These sink holes are often quite deep, the one we entered was 26m deep at entry point, the deepest points of the cave system went down to 60m. We entered into a tunnel, a vertical crack in the limestone about 1m wide, so wide enough to comfortably swim through. During the dive, we made our way about 350m into the cave to a maximum depth of 32m. As the shape of the cave determines the dive profile, I ended up having to add an extra decompression stop before surfacing.
We went through a lower tunnel into a larger cave, which had some beautiful sunlight shining in through cracks above in blue-green colors. Visibility was excellent, and the sunrays produced an almost magical ray of sunlight in the water of the deeper cave. Through the haloclyne above us, the sunlight was broken by the different densities of air, fresh and salt water until they hit the particles drifting in the water or the walls and bottom and of the cave. This dive was guided by a specialized cave diving guide. Briefings were thorough, and after a first reef dive to check everyone's buoyancy and general diving skills, we did our second dive of the day in the Cenote. I've found this video, which gives an impression how such a dive looks like. If you're an advanced diver, comfortable with overhead environments and experienced enough, I'd definitely recommend doing a Cenote dive, For me, it's been an unforgettable experience.
Playa Ancón
Playa Ancón is the beach village close to Trinidad. It's a peninsula at about 7km from Trinidad. I've found it a bit complicated to book the diving there. Tour operator in Trinidad would tell me that everything's fully booked, but inquiring at the dive center in Playa Ancon, I was told to just show up before 9am and I should be fine. That's what I did, and it was indeed no problem to go diving there. We'd enter the boat from the beach and would go out a few hundred meters, just too much to swim there comfortably.
Even with a bit of a choppy sea that day, the diving was excellent. Good guides lead me over an interesting seascape with sandbed-"roads" in between coral fields, and much life in between. Highlights of these dives were a wreck, which lay across two large rocks and created a swimthrough this way, a school of tuna (about 40 fish), and a 1.2m large eagle ray. Water was warm and visibility in the range of 15m (considered quite bad for the location, so expect better when you get there). The dive shop was run professionally, but be prepared for a "laid-back scheduling", which means depending on the day, two boat dives with a surface interval on shore might run into the early afternoon. (I'm mentioning it here, since every other dive center I dove with in Cuba was exceptionally punctual, contrary to what I had read before.)
Spring dive.Monday, March 9th, 2015
Spring is just showing its first rays of sun, so we went diving today. We did a shallow dive in the morning in a lake close by, which is known for decent diving. The water was 4°C, so really chilly for a recreational dive, visibility under water about 5-7m, which is quite good for this kind of water. During our dive, we had really nice light as we didn't go very deep and it's been a really sunny day.
I've used Lycra undergarment and a 2mm neoprene bodywarmer under a 5mm wetsuit, 5mm neoprene gloves, hood and boots. My coldest dive so far was in 18 degrees water (in the same lake, late summer), so water that cold was quite something new. Richard, my buddy has a lot of experience also in these conditions, so I was in excellent hands.
After an initial bit of a shock when we entered the water, and a quick weighting / buoyancy check I gained back my serene diving breathing rhythm and started trusting the suit enough to become comfortable that it would keep me warm enough to take it for a swim. We went under for almost half an hour, but also took first signs of hypothermia seriously, in order to keep it safe and healthy. During the dive, we saw some fun fresh water lobsters, but also a fairly dormant ecosystem. I wanted to test out my new equipment, wireless integrated tank pressure gauge, jacket BCD, fins, regulator and an air tank I've borrowed from a neighbor, aside from the different layers of the suit.
I'm really happy with the new gear, everything functions perfectly, and there's nothing that doesn't have a clear purpose. I've taken a couple of notes for the next dive with this equipment, though those are only small adjustments, such as strapping on the tank a bit lower for a better weight distribution (which translates to a more hydrodynamic body position, meaning less exertion, lower air consumption and a more relaxed dive).
My next dive will be in 26°C water. Phew.
Say hi to cuttlefish!Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Over the christmas downtime, I found some spare cycles to sit down and hammer out a basic tool which allows me to streamline that workflow. In the course of writing this little tool, I realised that it's not only useful for a developer (like me), but also for artists and designers who often work on or with icons. I decided to target these two groups (UI developers and designers) and try to streamline this tool as good as possible for their usecases.
Cuttlefish is the result of that work. It's a small tool to list, pick and preview icons. It tries to follow the way we render icons in Plasma UIs as close as possible, in order to make the previews as realistic as possible. I have just shown this little tool to a bunch of fellow Plasma hackers here at the sprint, and it was very well received. I've collected a few suggestions what to improve, and of course, cuttlefish being brand-new, it still has a few rough edges.
You can get the source code using the following command:
git clone kde:scratch/sebas/cuttlefish
git clone kde:plasmate
and build it with the cmake.
Enjoy cuttlefish!
[Edit] We moved cuttlefish to the Plasmate repository, it's now part of Plasma's SDK.
"Killing the Cashew" done right.Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
In Plasma 4.x, there was a Plasmoid, provided by a third party, that used a pretty gross hack to remove the toolbox (which was depicted as the old Plasma logo, resembling a cashew a bit). We did not support this officially, but if people are deliberately risking to break their desktop, who are we to complain. They get to keep both pieces.
During the migration to QML (which begun during Plasma 4.x times), one of the parts I had been porting to QtQuick was this toolbox. Like so many other components in Plasma, this is actually a small plugin. That means it's easy to replace the toolbox with something else. This feature has not really been documented as its more or less an internal thing, and we didn't want to rob users of this important lifeline.
Some users want to reduce clutter on their desktop as much as possible, however. Since the options offered in the toolbox are also accessible elsewhere (if you know to find them). Replacing the toolbox is actually pretty easy. You can put a unicorn dancing on a rainbow around your desktop there, but you can also replace it with just an empty object, which means that you're effectively hiding the toolbox.
For users who would rather like their toolbox to be gone, I've prepared a small package that overrides the installed toolbox with an empty one. Hiding the toolbox is as easy as installing this minimal package, which means the toolbox doesn't get shown, or even get loaded.
I would not recommend doing this, especially not as default, but at the same time, I don't want to limit what people do with their Plasma do what we as developers exactly envision, so there you go.
Download this file, then install it as follows:
plasmapkg2 -t package -i emptytoolbox.plasmoid
Now restart the Plasma Shell (either by stopping the plasmashell process, or by logging out and in again), and your toolbox should be gone.
If you want it back, run
plasmapkg2 -t package -r org.kde.desktoptoolbox
Then restart Plasma and it's back again.
Even more than just removing the toolbox, I'd like to invite and encourage everybody to come up with nice, crazy and beautiful ideas how to display and interact with the toolbox. The toolbox being a QtQuick Plasmoid package, it's easy to change and to share with others.
Trusty Old RouterWednesday, December 10th, 2014
I decommissioned a fine piece of hardware today. This access point brought the first wireless connectivity to my place. It's been in service for more than 11 years, and is still fully functional.
In the past years, the device has been running OpenWRT, which is a really nice and very powerful little Linux distribution specifically for this kind of routers. OpenWRT actually sprang from the original firmware for this device, and was extended, updated, improved and made available for a wide range of hardware. OpenWRT lately has made this piece of hardware useful, and I'm really thankful for that. It also a shows how much value releasing firmware under an Open Source license can add to a product. Aside from the long-term support effect of releasing the firmware, updated firmware would add features to the router which were otherwise only available in much more expensive hardware.
The first custom firmware I ran on this device was Sveasoft. In the long run, this ended up not being such a good option, since the company producing the software really stretched the meaning of the GPL — while you were technically allowed to share software with others, doing so would end your support contract with the company — no updates for you. LWN has a good write-up about this story.
Bitter-sweet gadget-melancholy aside, the replacement access point brings a 4 times speed increase to the wifi in my home office: less finger-twiddling, more coding. :)


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For nineteen months William Zinsser, author of the best-selling On Writing Well and many other books, wrote a weekly column for the website of the American Scholar magazine. This cornucopia was devoted mainly to culture and the arts, the craft of writing, and travels to remote places, along with the movies, American popular song, email, multitasking, baseball, Central Park, Tina Brown, Pauline Kael, Steve Martin, and other complications of modern life. Written with elegance and humor, these pieces are now collected in The Writer Who Stayed.
"If you value vintage journalism of an old-fashioned vividness and integrity please, please read this book."—Wall Street Journal
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William Zinsser is a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer—he began his career on the New York Herald Tribune in 1946—and is also a teacher, best known for his book On Writing Well, a companion held in affection by three generations of writers, reporters, editors, teachers, and students. His 17 other books range from memoir (Writing Places) to travel (American Places), jazz (Mitchell and Ruff), American popular song (Easy to Remember), baseball (Spring Training) and the craft of writing (Writing to Learn). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers. He has taught at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
"These 58 essays written for the American Scholar's Web site span topics both personal and cultural, from Zinsser's experiences during WWII to an app for Central Park. Readers who crave more of the advice Zinsser provided in his 1976 guide On Writing Well will find an abundance: in addition to 12 craft essays, Zinsser drops tips throughout: 'Writers! Never forget to tell us what's up with the bears.' The essays in 'Faraway Places' are mostly with travel, but the destinations almost incidental; Zinsser prefers to discuss how 'civilized' white people write about whatever 'unknown land' they travel to, not the people or cultures who call that place home. The order of the essays within their categories feels somewhat slapdash, though these shifts feel appropriate to the Internet culture Zinsser was writing for and about. His reminiscing does become tiring when reading the book cover to cover, particularly in the 'Tech Age' section, but enjoyed in small chunks, Zinsser's sharp observations provide a welcome perspective." Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Sixty essays on writing, getting older, staying alert to the world, and passing along writing tips to others
William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for The American Scholar about writing, the arts, New York, and popular culture. The Writer Who Stayed collects these engaging pieces by one of America's best essayists. Relationships, storytelling, baseball, summer reading, comic strips, Woody Allen—Bill Zinsser illuminates modern life.
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Parents need to know that while Finger Physics doesn't aim to teach your kids about the laws of science, those laws are rather faithfully followed by the objects in the game. Blocks move and react to stimuli as they would in the real world, and as kids play with them, they can see the laws of physics in action. Finger Physics is essentially a game and science experiment rolled into one.
Adorable graphics and well-designed, varied challenges keep kids trying.
Kids learn some basics of physics, magnetism, rotation, and buoyancy in a fun atmosphere.
Menus and icons are sometimes mystifying, and gameplay is not always clear. A tutorial explains gameplay with one page per mode, although it skips the Doodler mode.
Ten help pages explain 10 different modes of play. Stage 1 begins with egg mode (other modes are peppered throughout the stages). Kids tap on dotted white blocks to make them disappear and allow the egg to fall. Geared blocks add the element of rotation, and gravity can sometimes flow up with gravity blocks. In lunar mode, kids drag and drop shapes to build the tallest structure they can. Kids can take challenges sequentially or hop to any unlocked challenge at any time.
FINGER PHYSICS is an incredibly well made game app. Whether you're holding your breath, carefully stacking different shaped blocks, or knocking obstacles out of the way to guide a big block down to the screen's bottom, you're both exercising your knowledge of the laws of physics and having a heck of a lot of fun at the same time. New puzzles and levels are available to download in the future, giving Finger Physics the chance to be a very long-lived app on your iPhone.
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Kontravoid walked onto the red-lit stage amidst a sea of smoke, casting peculiar shadows through his obviously foreboding body language. Cameron Findlay, or Kontravoid, is no stranger to dark electronic music after spending time playing drums for Crystal Castles in the past. As the minimal drum machines began to guide the crowd and the strobe lights fired up, Kontravoid's eerie image became clear. Donning all black and a face-mask, his stage presence was one part Phantom of the Opera and one part Ian Curtis. The imagery and musical style were an ideal match, as the crowd was glowing from the very beginning of the performance.
Heavy mixes of industrial-style percussion and goth influences were matched perfectly with Kontravoid's deliberately monotone vocal delivery. Regardless of being the sole performer, the production came together perfectly, from the lights to the volume. The crowd responded appropriately, keeping energy alive until the very end of Kontravoid's well-paced set.
After a tension-filled break, Crystal Castles took the stage accompanied by a wash of digital feedback and noise that mutated into the opening synth line of their most recent single "Plague." The energy that peaked during the first choruses never quite let up. From the glitchy electronics of their early material to the grandeur of their latest work, the crowd couldn't have enough, as Crystal Castles melted together a healthy mix of electronic danceability and the aggression and attitude of a punk show. This meshing of styles came together stunningly during a mid-set deluge of noise that benefited greatly from improvisation made possible by the mix of live and digital drums.
Crystal Castles are known for music that is abrasive, and their treatment of "Alice Practice" made it clear to any uninitiated that their live show raises the bar. When watching the group, it was impossible not to get lost in the ever-changing visual effects and become captivated by the silhouettes cast by Alice Glass's volatile hair and limbs spawning from the strobe lights surrounding the stage. The performance became an exercise in endurance, as the sensory overload began to push the audience into undiscovered levels of enjoyment. It is safe to say that this sort of audio/video punishment is not one you'd want to miss again.
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In a clear sign of the how far we've come in terms of the science surrounding HIV/AIDS, last week 82 lawmakers sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius urging her agency to revisit the lifetime ban on blood donation by men who have sex with men (MSM). Initiated in the Senate by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and in the House by Reps. Mike Quigley (D-IL), and Barbara Lee (D-CA), they request information about HHS efforts toward bringing the policy in line with today's science.
The letter states, "Since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic more than 30 years ago, the scientific community's understanding of the virus has changed dramatically. We have seen vast advances in blood screening technology, blood donation policy changes in other countries allowing MSM to donate, and opposition from our nation's blood banks who have called the current ban 'medically and scientifically unwarranted.'"
The lifetime deferral policy currently in place made sense in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic but can no longer be justified in light of scientific research and updated blood screening technology. Recognizing this, the HHS Advisory Committee on Blood & Tissue Safety & Availability (ACBTSA) asked for re-evaluation of the policy in 2010 and HHS initiated studies which would support changes to the MSM deferral criteria. Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution emphasizing that the ban on blood donation by MSM is discriminatory. In addition the AMA along with the Red Cross and the blood banking community support updating the donation policy so that it is based on today's evidence and science.
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PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure
Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
Writers: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 598,306
13. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
PG | 115 min | Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
Writer: Melissa Mathison | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 260,570
14. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
PG-13 | 146 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
Writers: Brian Aldiss, Ian Watson, Steven Spielberg | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards
Votes: 223,189
15. The Last Airbender (2010)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan | Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Votes: 112,244
16. Lincoln (2012)
PG-13 | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
Writers: Tony Kushner, Doris Kearns Goodwin | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Votes: 183,384
17. Back to the Future Part III (1990)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend.
Writers: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale | Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson
Votes: 245,080
18. Munich (2005)
R | 164 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.
Writers: Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, George Jonas | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 167,838
19. Gremlins (1984)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Horror
A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Writer: Chris Columbus | Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie
Votes: 127,004
20. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.
Writers: Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Menno Meyjes, Philip Kaufman | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 464,392
21. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.
Writers: Michael Crichton, David Koepp | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 249,533
22. Star Wars: Episode VIII (2017)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy | Filming
Plot is unknown.
Writers: Rian Johnson, George Lucas | Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Mark Hamill, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac
23. Signs (2002)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Writer: M. Night Shyamalan | Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 256,757
24. Jurassic Park III (2001)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Alan Grant to go to Isla Sorna (the second InGen dinosaur lab.), resulting in an unexpected landing...and unexpected new inhabitants on the island.
Writers: Michael Crichton, Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor | Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola
Votes: 198,024
25. War of the Worlds (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
Writers: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Votes: 310,570
26. Twister (1996)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
Writers: Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin | Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz
Votes: 136,595
27. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Writers: David Koepp, George Lucas, Jeff Nathanson, Philip Kaufman | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen
Votes: 307,760
28. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Writers: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, George Lucas | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri
Votes: 296,441
29. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
PG | 104 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
Writers: Gary K. Wolf, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman | Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Votes: 127,971
30. Empire of the Sun (1987)
PG | 153 min | Drama, History, War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Writers: J.G. Ballard, Tom Stoppard | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Votes: 83,474
31. The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama
A black Southern woman (Whoopi Goldberg) struggles to find her identity after suffering years of abuse from her father and others over 40 years.
Writers: Alice Walker, Menno Meyjes | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery
Votes: 57,058
32. Cape Fear (1991)
R | 128 min | Crime, Thriller
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
Writers: John D. MacDonald, James R. Webb, Wesley Strick | Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 118,427
33. War Horse (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Drama, War
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.
Writers: Lee Hall, Richard Curtis, Michael Morpurgo, Nick Stafford | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 108,160
34. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
PG | 107 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.
Writers: Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Hergé | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg
Votes: 166,534
35. The Flintstones (1994)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
In this live-action feature of the cartoon show, Fred Flintstone finally gets the job he's always wanted, but it may just come at a price.
Writers: Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza | Director: Brian Levant | Stars: John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Halle Berry
Votes: 57,488
36. Indiana Jones 5
Action, Adventure | Announced
The plot is unknown at this time.
Writers: Philip Kaufman, George Lucas | Director: Steven Spielberg | Star: Harrison Ford
Votes: 641
37. Hereafter (2010)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy
A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.
Writer: Peter Morgan | Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard, Thierry Neuvic
Votes: 77,295
38. Alive (1993)
R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.
Writers: Piers Paul Read, John Patrick Shanley | Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay
Votes: 36,199
39. Ponyo (2008)
G | 101 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
An adventure about a five-year-old boy and his relationship with Ponyo, a goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki | Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Tomoko Yamaguchi
Votes: 77,531
40. The BFG (2016)
Family, Fantasy | Post-production
The tale of a young girl, the Queen of England and a benevolent giant known as the BFG, who set out on an adventure to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.
Writers: Roald Dahl, Melissa Mathison | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Penelope Wilton
41. Arachnophobia (1990)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to the U.S. in a coffin and starts to breed and kill.
Writers: Don Jakoby, Al Williams, Wesley Strick | Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak
Votes: 46,994
42. The Money Pit (1986)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
Writer: David Giler | Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 34,899
43. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.
Writers: Richard LaGravenese, Robert James Waller | Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Annie Corley, Victor Slezak
Votes: 51,118
44. The Land Before Time (1988)
G | 69 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.
Writers: Stu Krieger, Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss | Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Pat Hingle, Gabriel Damon, Judith Barsi, Helen Shaver
Votes: 56,574
45. Sully
Drama | Filming
The story of American pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who heroically landed a troubled aircraft full of passengers on the Hudson River
Writers: Todd Komarnicki, Chesley Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow | Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Tom Hanks, Autumn Reeser, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
46. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Horror
The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken total control over the building of a media mogul.
Writers: Chris Columbus, Charles S. Haas | Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky
Votes: 61,484
47. The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
PG | 96 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy
On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an old cupboard from his brother and a little Indian figure made of plastic from his best ... See full summary »
Writers: Lynne Reid Banks, Melissa Mathison | Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Hal Scardino, Litefoot, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Jenkins
Votes: 19,705
48. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
G | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
Writers: Mary Norton, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa | Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Moises Arias
Votes: 47,195
49. Seabiscuit (2003)
PG-13 | 140 min | Drama, History, Sport
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Writers: Laura Hillenbrand, Gary Ross | Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Cooper
Votes: 55,410
50. Innerspace (1987)
PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
Writers: Chip Proser, Jeffrey Boam | Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 39,037


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Cold War1 year ago Released 2012 Stealth
Cold War follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve...
Linux Game Publishing aims to bring top quality Linux games to market by providing a reseller channel for both ports of games from other platforms and for new games.
Cold War follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve...
Majesty for Linux contains both the full Majesty game, and the expansion pack, The Northern Expansion. Majesty is a unique sim putting you in the crushed...
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Hi. Since it's winter time maby you should consider release of SoluRide on Desura.
Thank you for taking the time to port PC Games for Linux Distros. I'm very excited to see someone taking the time to make the native binaries so that we can run our PC Games without Wine. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know!
Keep up the great work!
LGP, on Desura? Awesome!
Will you be updating and selling Hyperspace Delivery Boy at some point?
Yes :) You can expect our entire catalogue to appear over time.
When do we see X3 being released here? I already bought retails Windows, all Xs Steam Pack and then the 3rd time for Linux. ;)
X2 and X3 are not even listed on their website anymore (neither in Products nor in Support). Do they not sell them anymore..?
Also, the old links (from the scrolling header) say "Invalid game".
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What a shame... Those two were your best offers in my opinion. Hopefully there will be new titles.
Thanks, LGP, for adopting Desura! Hopefully you'll allow us to activate games purchased in your store (I have a bunch :) ).
Indeed, we're able to do this now. Send us an e-mail on email@example.com asking for a desura invite. Make sure you send from the email address you registered the game with as your desura invite will be sent back to that same email address.
Will this also work for older, non-DRM titles like Majesty?
Unfortunately not, since we have no way to easily verify ownership. The "new" build with the security system will work however.
Isn't a tuxgames order number enough though? I thought LGP was in charge of that store, so you'd be able to verify the email address as well.
No, sorry. The only reason we are able to offer this in the first place is because it hooks into the existing security system and uses the same keys.
I suppose that makes sense but I can't imagine anyone will be happy about it.
Regardless, I just re-downloaded Majesty from my tuxgames order history and I got the new DRM version! 2/3 of the other games also have a "Get Unlock Key" button so I image I'll be able to activate them in the future (the download link is expired). Can you please send me an invitation now? I already sent you an email a few days ago.
Thanks. I'll keep it in mind for future releases.
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Driving innovation in the year ahead is beauty that's "plugged in" and encompasses electricity and energy, according to Mintel Beauty and Personal Care, which also predicted that packaging will reflect the increase in interactivity between virtual and real worlds, making greater use of sound, video and QR codes. Enter Kinetique.
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Retirement Planning For 30-Somethings: Reducing Savings
If you have accumulated savings, but find yourself highly in debt, it is possible that you are saving too much. Having a large nest egg can be attractive, but the associated benefits can be eroded by the interest paid on outstanding debt. If you do have outstanding debt, you will need to determine whether you should reduce the amount you add to your savings so as to allocate more towards paying off your debts, or continue adding your usual amounts to your retirement nest egg. The following are some points for consideration:
Interest Cost vs. Interest Earned
The net amount of the interest that you would earn on your savings versus the interest that you would pay on your debt should be assessed. If your savings are invested in vehicles that provide a fixed rate of return, it is easy to project the amount of interest that you will earn over a given period. However, if you invest in stocks and other assets for which there is no guaranteed rate of return, you may need to work with a financial advisor to determine a reasonable rate of projected return, which is usually based on several factors, including historical performance of the assets in which your savings are invested.
Calculate the amount of interest that you would pay on your outstanding debt over time if you pay the amounts that you can afford, and compare that to the earnings that would accrue on your savings. The calculated earnings on your savings should take any income tax that would be owed on the amount into consideration. For regular savings and brokerage accounts, the income tax owed would generally be paid every year when you file your tax return, whereas the income tax on tax-deferred savings would be owed at the time the amount is withdrawn from your retirement savings account.
If you find that you would be paying more interest than you would earn, it may make more financial sense to reduce your savings and increase the amount allocated towards paying off your debt, so as to reduce the amount of debt-related interest you would eventually pay.
Do You Get a Matching Contribution?
If your savings are being added to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, such as a 401(k), 403(b) or SIMPLE IRA, and you receive a matching contribution, that factor should be taking into consideration. If reducing the amount that you save also means giving up the opportunity to receive matching contributions from your employer, that too should be factored into your calculation. In some cases, the matching contribution may result in a higher return on your savings than the amount of interest you would pay on your debt, but that is not always the case.
Are Your Earnings Tax-Free Eligible?
If your savings are added to a Roth account, income tax due on the amount would be paid when you file your tax return for the year. However, the earnings on those amounts could be tax free, which could make saving your disposable income a better option than allocating more to paying off your debt. However, an analysis should be done so as to make a reasonable determination.
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